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Adventures at Home

Travel is about mindset, not location.

I’m trying to bring the CrazyTraveler sense of adventure to life at home. This means not just schlepping my kids with me on international adventures, but also intentionally creating adventures locally. We are lucky to live just outside Washington DC, so its not that hard to find adventure.

Fun and unusual family adventures we’ve had locally:

Went to DC United games and sat in the section with the loud drumming

Went to plays and musicals at the Kennedy Center, the Warner Theatre, Olney Theatre

Ate tapas on 14th street

Found DC’s best acai bowls

Explored local farmers markets across DC, MD and VA

Went to a horse show in Culpeper VA

Visited Monocacy battlefield

Explored Gettysburg

Sailed on the Chesapeake Bay

Saw the water lillies in Kenilworth Gardens

Ate Italian food in Baltimore’s Little Italy

Hiked the canal and Billy Goat Trail

Experienced “living history” at the Claude Moore farm off the GW Parkway

Went to a halloween-fest at Six Flags

10:55pm frozen yogurt runs to get there before the 11pm close

Eaten the “chocolate pinata” at our local Mexican restaurant

Road a tandem bike in our neighborhood

Went to dinner theatre in Hagerstown (Addam’s Family Values) and Columbia (Mary Poppins)